3rd Release Candidate is Available for NetBSD 7.0

The NetBSD engineering team through Soren Jacobsen announced availability of 3rd release candidate for NetBSD 7.0, an independently developed BSD distribution. It is expected that NetBSD 7.0 RC3 will be final release candidate prior to release of NetBSD 7.0 stable.

According to release announcement published in netbsd official blog, following are some major changes after release of NetBSD 7.0 RC2.

Add a resize_root boot operation (disabled by default). If
resize_root=YES in rc.conf then the system attempts to resize the root
file system to fill its partition prior to mounting read-write.

Enable SMP on Raspberry Pi 2.

evbarm: Rename beagleboard.img to armv7.img. The new image
includes the same kernels as beagleboard.img plus support for Raspberry
Pi 2, ODROID-C1, Cubieboard2, Cubietruck, Hummingbird A31, and Banana
Pi.

evbarm: For armv7.img and rpi.img, enable support for auto-growing the SD card root filesystem.